Where is swearing not normal? I don’t live in a preschool. It’s the 90’s. We have internet and everything now. I can say the “fuck” word.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but it’s not the 90’s anymore, it’s 2024.
Sorry, I was in a coma. I hope nothing bad happened after the 90’s. I’d hate to wake up in 2024 and learn basically everything is kind of shittier except portable music players and street food.
Seriously, this question is exactly backwards. Everything should be normal to say unless there’s a specific reason NOT to say it. So OP, what is your specific reason for thinking people SHOULDN’T say swear words?
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They don’t give a fuck? You can hear em, moan and yuck
Who the fuck is asking and why the fuck should I care if they care?
Don’t be such a fucking twat, you cunt. /s
What the fuck do you mean?
I mean, even Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales poked fun at the nun for her frequent oaths “by saint Loy” IIRC.
This question is exactly backwards. Everything should be normal to say unless there’s a specific reason NOT to say it. So OP, what is your specific reason for thinking people SHOULDN’T say swear words?
I disagree. Lots of swear words are just derogatory ways of referring to people. I don’t think it should be normal for those words to be said
Well clearly you agree with me, not disagree, because you have a specific reason for why you think they shouldn’t be used.
Secondly, you’re misunderstanding what swear words are. It includes insults, but that isn’t what a swear word is. Swear words at least as often don’t even refer to people, as in “fuck! I stubbed my toe!” and “damn I’m late for work again”. And in fact very often they’re used as positive words, as in “shit i love that tv show!” and “that motherfucker really knows how to play the bass!”
You said the question should be backwards. I disagree
You think random words should be not said for no reason?
Also, you didn’t respond to the main part of my point
What part
I read the Bible for a living.
There are verses that say not to swear or curse.
James 5:12 Leviticus 19:12 Ecclesiastes 10:20 Romans 12:14 Proverbs 30:10 Matthew 26:74
Take a further look and i think you’ll find those passages don’t mean what you think they mean. On biblehub look at the most up to date translations, and look at the commentaries section - https://biblehub.com/james/5-12.htm
I see…I just don’t prefer profanity over normal language.
Ah, now THAT is a valid reason!! We all have our own preferences, and by itself that’s totally fine
Thanks.
Profanity is a part of normal language.
I’ve noticed that words that are considered “profanity” tend to be vernacular words that express negative emotions (pain, anger, frustration, etc). The fact that these words are considered profane seems a bit unhealthy, because it limits our ability to verbally express how we are feeling internally. Nevertheless, I think some people might use these words too often. If one is cursing every other word all the time, then it’s a bit like “crying wolf” once they use it when they’re actually experiencing a strong negative emotion.
Try playing Sonic the Hedgehog some more and expressing how it makes you feel.
Sonic? Or Sonic 2? Because that underwater level made my heart race as a KID! Imagine the damage it could do to me now as an ADULT!!! I mean, I’m not elderly or anything, but I just don’t want to risk a heart attack.
I had to go take a heart pill because I can hear that music in my head.
I don’t swear in my native language (Romanian), but I do in English. I can’t explain why…
My friends gifted me a T-shirt that said “I can’t say fuck in Romanian” for my birthday a few years ago.
As a Romanian this is accurate
Wait, i bet you guys have great swear words. Tell me some good ones. I’ll swear in Romanian and you can sweae in English
They can be quite… creative :) Here’s a nice overview: https://utopiabalcanica.net/2019/12/05/20-ingenious-ways-to-use-pla-in-the-romanian-language/
Sã-mi bag pula! Saved! Thanks a lot
Gets people’s attention.
Why the fuck wouldn’t they shitting be?
As others have mentioned, for me I sometimes use it as just filler (part of natural language). Alternatively, I can use it to add emphasis or to exaggerate.
Because swearing was strictly forbidden in my household and i picked it up in late high school and early college partially as an act of defiance.
I made friends also more interested in content and quality of thought than on politeness and that was dope AF.
Now it’s part of my lexicon, just a casual turn of phrase.
“Ay yo, that shit is fire” conveys the same sentiment as “Wow! That’s really cool.”
I’m a mechanical engineer and a writer. Words are words. They have meanings and those meanings change over time and with context/audience.
People who don’t ever swear feel repressed to me. It’s a weird vibe. Not a fan.
It’s even weirder when people self-censor memes , posts, and whatnot. Like F*CK. You’re allowed to swear on the internet, people!
It seems to me this became a thing when social media algorithms started downranking content with profanity in it. It’s weird when people do it elsewhere.
People just repost form other places without a second thought.
i’ve seen possibly one of more egregious example of this like three days ago. gopro video of a trench warfare, cameraman (ukrainian) shoots two intruders (russian) one of which has no face attached by the end of video with bits of it dripping to the ground. audio track is bleeped out and subtitles are **** out too for some reason
or anything involving youtube, or gods have mercy if that nipple hating son of a bitch zuckerberg notices something. then you can say goodbye to your account
Swearing is actually normal for all people. Any word can be classified as a “swear” or “bad” word. That’s how language works. There is nothing wrong with using a word that is deemed a cuss word. The actual “bad” part is always the context the word is used in. If you smacked your foot into a chair accidentally and you called the chair a Bastard, you used the expletive correctly. But if you walked into work one morning and walked by your boss and said to him, “Good morning you Bastard.”, that’s going to get you in trouble. The context matters.
You can make any word a cuss word in the context you use it. You can ask a person if they like Bananas, “Are you a banana eater?”. Or you can accuse a person, “What kind of a sick banana eater are you? What is wrong with you?”, ‘banana eater’ is now a bad phrase/thing.
Context in language always matters, regardless of the taboo of a word/phrase.
Words only have power over you if you let them. Language is to be used, enjoyed and laughed at.
You can’t entirely remove a word from it’s main meaning and there’s a reason all popular swear words are negative or taboo things, fuck, damn, hell etc
Well gosh darnit the study of etymology is gonna want a word (hehe) with you. a faggot used to be an old unpleasant woman who was like baggage, as difficult to carry around as a bundle of sticks which was also called a faggot. Brits smoke fags.
Literally is another example. Through use, it now has a secondary definition which is exactly the opposite of its primary one. (figurative, emphasis)There are less popular examples but your premise as i understand it is just wrong friend
I didn’t say the main meaning can’t change, just that you can’t remove it from said meaning by using it in a different context
just that you can’t remove it from said meaning by using it in a different context
I’m afraid i don’t follow (no sarcasm). Can you elaborate?
The main meaning of a word can change, but at any given time, you can’t use the word in a different context, and expect how people receive it to be completely divorced from its current main meaning
This is true, which is why context matters. Like if you love a song so much and say, “That’s sick!”, people might think you mean “ill” and assume something negative.